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Political theater to take away the rights of immigrants? Or all of us? This, from @theintercept.com ⬇️ theintercept.com/2025/03/27/t...

Unbelievable cowardice! A yes vote legitimizes; a no vote enables a platform to call out and expose all nefarious actions taken during a shutdown.

🚨NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is planning to fire Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff C.Q. Brown, a 4-Star General and 41-year veteran of the Air Force who flew over 130 hours in combat as a fighter pilot. REPOST if you stand with General C.Q. Brown against Hegseth!

Democrats need to stop being embarrassed about their beliefs. We need to stand up for immigrants, for the trans community, against wealth inequality. When we try to move right to “compromise” we only pull the Overton window right with us. That’s what has gotten us here.

If you only have time to read one thing today, read this. Excellent analysis of the dismantling of our institutions – – the movement behind it and what is occurring in real time. We’re in the fight of our lives. open.substack.com/pub/mikebroc...

Yes, and McConnell for stealing a Supreme Court seat and blocking impeachment as well as Rubio, Ernst, and Cassidy for selling out their signature issues.

Knowledge is power…

Thinking out loud . . . Is there a paper trail authorizing DOGE as an actor on behalf of the government? If not, would their illegal actions and Trump’s complicity with them fall outside the scope of presidential immunity?

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case. Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

Of course Hagerty is in favor of deleting the CFPB — it protects people from the greedy. CFPB has delivered billions back to the people. Hagerty is telling you whose side he’s on.

Who wants to tell Pres Felon that straight white men are a minority in the US?

So it must be true ICE had to quit accepting calls and shut down because everybody was reporting Elon Musk 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 www.tiktok.com/t/ZT22Fhksm/

Mirror, eh?

Some initial good news as reported by the Contrarian. Judge issued a temporary restraining order against the rescinding of birth right citizenship declaring the EO as blatantly unconstitutional and indefensible. contrarian.substack.com/p/birthright...